Merchant Shipping Act, 1906

Definition of steerage passenger.

14. The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (3) of section two hundred and sixty-eight of the principal Act—

“(3) The expression ‘steerage passenger’ means all “passengers except cabin passengers, and persons shall not be “deemed cabin passengers unless—

“(a) the space allotted to their exclusive use is in the “proportion of at least thirty-six clear superficial feet “to each statute adult; and

“(b) the fare contracted to be paid by them amounts to at “least the sum of twenty-five pounds for the entire “voyage or is in the proportion of at least sixty-five “shillings for every thousand miles of the length of “the voyage; and

“(c) they have been furnished with a duly signed contract “ticket in the form prescribed by the Board of Trade “for cabin passengers.”